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...Those who held out: Allen, Jenison, Simpson (Ill.); Crawford, Hoffman (Mich.); Gwinn (N.Y.); Nicholson (Mass.); Rich (Pa.); Sanborn (Idaho); Werdel, Phillips (Calif.)-all of whom would qualify as diehard Republicans; and Communist-Liner Marcantonio...
...Britons, whose athletes had been losing to foreigners all summer in golf, cricket, tennis, boxing and soccer (TIME, July 17), Englishman Hicks's title was some consolation. But no one got very excited about it: only 100 diehard croquet fans had turned out to watch...
...fall, it seemed the market had been an accurate barometer; industrial production had also started up with a rush. In the next six months, the Dow industrials climbed 30 points in one of the sharpest rises in the market's history, without once suffering a major break. Some diehard bears still quibbled that the market was not actually as high as the Dow-Jones indexes* indicated, because many stocks not on the indexes had not broken their 1946 highs. But to many analysts this only meant that the bull market was still in its first phase...
...entirely religious." But to other Italians, and other churchmen, his gesture did not seem entirely devoid of a political background. During World War II, Blandino had served as an army chaplain in the Albanian, Greek and North African campaigns. In 1943 he had joined Mussolini's diehard "Salo Republic" in northern Italy. Does he now sympathize with Fascist principles? Replies Blandino: "A call went out for chaplains to administer spiritual comfort. A priest must not interest himself in politics...
Died. Oswald Garrison Villard, 77, crusading editor (the New York Evening Post, 1897-1918; the Nation, 1918-32); in Manhattan. Heir to the diehard liberalism of his grandfather, Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, and to the fortune of his father, Henry Villard (one of the builders of the Northern Pacific Railroad), Editor Villard spent a lifetime plumping for such causes as civil liberties and pacifism, finally came to the conclusion that most of his heroes (notably Wilson, Charles Evans Hughes, Al Smith and F.D.R.) had feet of clay...